From my plane near London, Sept. 24, 1944

Original watercolor with pen and ink highlights, dated by Stevenson, of the view from inside a plane looking out on the runway near London towards another plane and a truck. Original watercolor with pen and ink highlights, dated by Stevenson, of the view from inside a plane looking out on the runway near London towards another plane and a truck. Stevenson enlisted in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in July 1941. He was one of the original soldier-artists at Fort Belvoir, VA. before accepting a position as a war artist in May 1943. In 1944 he was in southern England covering the preparations for the Normandy invasion and later depicted war damage in France and Germany. Gift of the artist, 1994.